Word: belters
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Writer-director Bill Condon has made some compromises too: pumping up the role of a James Brownish belter to get Eddie Murphy more screen time, handing Beyoncé a new ballad to even out a story that belongs to Effie. But, hey, that's show biz, and Dreamgirls has plenty of visual pizazz to match its cast's charisma. American Idol's Hudson is sensational, mixing tenderness and the truculence of an oughta-be star...
TAYLOR HICKS, 29 Birmingham, Ala. Sounds like: Joe Cocker Judgment call: The soulful elder belter appeals to boomers and underdog lovers. Call him Season 5's gray horse His odds...
...Benaud, but he didn't even want to shake my hand. Benaud was wearing a pink tie. Beazley was right, the bloke's in the closet. And he'd know. No wonder Kimbo bought a house in Sydney. Punter won the toss. We scored 676 for 8 on a belter; Langer and Ponting put on 350 for the second wicket. Magilla and I didn't even get to bat. Something's going on here...
Arguably the last totally terrific MGM musical, this 1960 adaptation of the Broadway hit preserves Judy Holliday's signature role as Ella the switchboard operator, who has all the answers for her callers but none for her lonely self. A nonpareil comedienne and prime show-tune belter, Holliday teams with Dean Martin in a delight that was her triumph and her elegy. She died at 43, of breast cancer...
...single mom from High Point, N.C., was crowned the third American Idol. It was a controversial season in which guest judge Elton John cried racism, frantic voters decried the jammed phone lines and the state of Hawaii just plain cried for its third-place finisher. Barrino, 19, a bluesy belter who had been an early favorite, beat Diana DeGarmo, 16, by 1.3 million votes in the finale. It was, aptly, a fairy-tale ending for a woman named after a Disney movie...